Toulouse Street

The Doobie Brothers Create Lasting Feel-Good Vibes on Southern-Leaning Toulouse Street: Breakthrough Includes 'Listen to the Music,' 'Jesus Is Just Alright,' and 'Rockin' Down the Highway'Experience the 1972 Album in Definitive Sound: Mobile Fidelity's Numbered-Edition 180g 45RPM 2LP Set Features Extraordinary Soundstages, Vivid Dynamics, and Airy OpennessFor all intents and purposes, Toulouse Street functions as the Doobie Brothers' debut. Though it released a self-titled effort in 1971, the band admitted the latter album was rushed and reflected the results of a group that had barely spent any time together. Toulouse Street unfolded amid far more favorable circumstances. Overflowing with feel-good vibes and a catchy hybrid of Southernreared blues, rock, R&B, and country, it touted key lineup changes that proved crucial to the band's success. And it's how most listeners discovered Tom Johnston and Co., setting the stage for a dominant run during the Seventies that led to the Doobie Brothers' induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.Sourced from the original analog master tapes, pressed at Fidelity Record Pressing in California, and housed in a Stoughton gatefold jacket, Mobile Fidelity's numbered-edition 180g 45RPM 2LP of Toulouse Street offers the 1972 set in definitive sound. Given the luxurious room of a 45RPM version for the first time and benefiting from wider grooves, the music benefits from extraordinary soundstages, ultra-quiet backgrounds, vivid dynamics, and incredible imaging. Ted Templeman's production shines like never before. Facets that help make the album so welcoming - voices that naturally rise and fall, notes that properly carry and decay, bass lines you can trace from beginning to end, well-placed percussive accents, well-defined separation between the players - come across on this collectible reissue with involving presence, balance, and realism. It's like the man says: Listen to the music. All the time.1/4' / 15 IPS Dolby A analog master to DSD 256 to analog console to latheNumbered 180g 45RPM Vinyl 2LPNUMBERED SPECIAL EDITIONTrack ListSide One:Listen to the MusicRockin' Down the HighwaySide Two:MamaloiToulouse StreetCotton MouthSide Three:Don't Start Me to Talkin'Jesus Is Just AlrightWhite SunSide Four:DiscipleSnake Man